Jacob Blake ― a Black man repeatedly shot in the back by Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officers on Sunday ― is now paralyzed from the waist down, his father told The Chicago Sun-Times. When Blake’s father spoke to him Sunday morning, Blake was planning to celebrate his son’s eighth birthday that day. “What justified all those shots?” Blake’s father, whose name is also Jacob Blake, said. What are we doing?”Doctors are not yet sure whether the younger Blake will suffer permanent paralysis, his father told the Sun-Times. Jacob Blake’s uncle, Justin Blake, described the horror of hearing the news that his nephew had been shot by police.

Source: Huffington Post August 25, 2020 14:26 UTC